Socialist Internationalism and Activist Lineages in the Afro-Asian World, 1950-present

该项目挑战国际主义的欧洲中心和外交历史，重点关注亚非世界活动家和技术官僚的全球社会主义知识分子的出现。在对社会主义的兴趣正在复苏的时候，该项目通过综合一系列关于社会主义国际主义对民间社会和发展中国家的影响的地方，跨国和代际观点，为全球南方的社会主义历史增添了新的维度。它采用了创新的研究方法，汇集了学者，社会活动家和年轻的公共历史学家在东南亚从事跨国活动家历史的合作研究。一个关于“非殖民化世界中的社会主义国际主义”的国际会议将汇集一批学者，从亚洲和非洲历史行为者的角度研究社会主义的悠久历史。通过合作和个人研究，该项目将探索国际左翼的亚非历史中的团结，等级和分裂的性质，这些历史有可能随着一代人的逝去和冷战历史的持续两极分化而被埋葬。因此，该项目将通过揭示亚非民间社会中一个强大部门被忽视的经验，改变我们对1945年后世界秩序的理解，这些经验挑战了美国。欧洲和苏联/中国试图将世界极化为相互竞争的权力集团，并为后代留下了重要的遗产。虽然该项目汇集了不同领域专业的学术研究人员，但核心研究重点是东南亚作为“全球冷战”的战场和亚非项目的孵化器。在1950年代的东南亚，社会主义活动家和知识分子推动了另一种“第三条道路”，以摆脱两极分化的冷战，致力于民主社会主义和结束亚洲和非洲的殖民统治。这些人物中的许多人成为政治反对党的领导人、民间社会的强大成员、主要的女权主义活动家和技术官僚，并被选入后殖民国家和国际竞技场，以及后来几代活动家和知识分子的导师。从这第一代活动家和知识分子开始，这个项目追溯了东南亚和更广泛的后殖民世界的全球社会主义知识分子的出现。它打破了国家主导的社会主义观点，确定了东南亚几代社会主义政治领导人，女权主义者，活动家，知识分子和技术官僚之间出现的跨国网络，他们共同致力于民主社会主义作为指导思想，并在亚洲和非洲建立了社会主义者网络。拟议的研究有三个不同的组成部分，这将有助于出版期刊文章和即将出版的专著的章节。第一个部分明确侧重于20世纪50年代至70年代参与跨国社会主义女权主义网络的欧洲和东南亚社会主义妇女的参与。第二部分考察了东南亚及其他地区跨国社会主义网络的亲密和代际历史，并以参与亚洲社会主义会议（1952-1956）的社会主义知识分子为起点。第三部分侧重于1950年代至1970年代社会主义技术官僚政治的新兴世界，以及社会主义知识分子进入国际发展部门和全球民间社会的情况。该项目将为国际主义和全球公民社会的历史增添一个新的维度，关注社会主义在全球南方的代际遗产。

This project challenges Eurocentric and diplomatic histories of internationalism in its focus on the emergence of a global socialist intelligentsia of activists and technocrats in the Afro-Asian world. At a time when interest in socialism is undergoing a revival, the project adds new dimensions to the history of socialism in the Global South by synthesising a range of local, transnational and inter-generational perspectives regarding the impact of socialist internationalism on civil society and the developing world. It employs an innovative research methodology that brings together academics, scholar-activists, and young public historians to engage in collaborative research on transnational activist histories in Southeast Asia. An international conference on 'Socialist Internationalism in the Decolonising World' will bring together a group of scholars examining the long history of socialism from the perspective of historical actors across Asia and Africa. Through collaborative and individual research, the project will explore the nature of solidarity, hierarchy, and division in Afro-Asian histories of the international Left, which are at risk of being buried with the passing of a generation and the continued polarisation of Cold War history. The project will thus transform our understanding of the post-1945 world order by uncovering the neglected experiences of a powerful sector of civil society in Afro-Asia who challenged U.S./European and Soviet/Chinese attempts to polarise the world into competing power blocs and left important legacies for ensuing generations. While the project brings together academic researchers of different area specialisms, the core research focus is on Southeast Asia as a battleground of the 'Global Cold War' and an incubator of the Afro-Asian project. In 1950s Southeast Asia, socialist activists and intellectuals promoted an alternative 'Third Way' out of a polarising Cold War in their commitment to democratic socialism and the end of colonial rule across Asia and Africa. Many of these figures emerged as leaders of political opposition parties, powerful members of civil society, leading feminist activists, and technocrats co-opted into post-colonial states and the international arena, as well as mentors to subsequent generations of activists and intellectuals. Beginning with this first generation of activists and intellectuals, this project traces the emergence of a global socialist intelligentsia in Southeast Asia and the wider post-colonial world. It breaks new ground in moving away from a state-led perspective on socialism to identify the transnational networks that emerged between multiple generations of socialist political leaders, feminists, activists, intellectuals, and technocrats in Southeast Asia who shared a commitment to democratic socialism as a guiding ideology, and forged networks of socialists across the Asia and Africa. The proposed research has three distinct components, which will contribute to the publication of journal articles and chapters of a forthcoming monograph. The first component focuses explicitly on the participation of socialist women in Europe and Southeast Asia who engaged in transnational socialist feminist networks from the 1950s to the 1970s. The second component examines the intimate and inter-generational histories of transnational socialist networks in Southeast Asia and beyond, taking as its starting point socialist intellectuals involved in the Asian Socialist Conference (1952-1956). The third component focuses on the emerging world of socialist technocracy, and the entry of socialist intellectuals into the international development sector and in global civil society from the 1950s to the 1970s. The project will add a fresh dimension to the history of internationalism and global civil society in its attention to the inter-generational legacies of socialism in the Global South.